The Family Court Accountability Network (FCAN) is a survivor-led, national advocacy initiative. We are mothers, children, families, and allies who have lived the failures of Australia’s family law system and are determined to expose injustice, demand accountability, and drive systemic reform.

Our Purpose

FCAN exists to:

• Protect survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence.

• Expose systemic harm in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA).

• Hold institutions accountable for breaches of human rights, including failures to protect children, override of protection orders, and disregard of evidence.

• Champion survivor-led solutions, grounded in lived experience, human rights obligations, and international best practice.

Our Values

• Justice: We insist on a system that upholds the safety, dignity, and rights of women and children.

• Accountability: We shine a light on judicial misconduct, systemic misogyny, and institutional failure.

• Voice: We amplify the voices of survivors who are too often silenced, disbelieved, or punished for speaking out.

• Change: We are building pathways towards a trauma-informed, child-safe, and non-adversarial model of family justice.

Our Work

FCAN conducts research, publishes survivor-led reports, builds alliances across the domestic and family violence (DFV) sector, and contributes to national and international processes including Australia’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations.

We call for urgent reform of Australia’s family law system — including recognition of systemic human rights breaches under the CRC, CEDAW, ICCPR, CAT, ICESCR and CRPD — and advocate for survivor-designed alternatives such as the Family Justice and Safety Tribunal (FJST).Exposing injustice.

Demanding accountability.

Protecting survivors of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence